Shichirô Hayashi

Movies

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
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Patience Has An End
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Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stray Wolf in Snow
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
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Prisoner Katsuji must fend for himself and his prison mates in the fierce battle involving a family feud.
New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2
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Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the dock operator.
Glorious Fights
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A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He fiercely battles violent elements in southern Japan like there is no tomorrow.
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
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Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the boss of the rival Sakaki Family. When the Soda attacks the Sakaki and double-crosses him, with sword in hand, Hidejiro seeks brutal retribution.
Chained Bitch
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Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
Love on the Rainbow
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A seamstress seeks the love of her life while helping a troubled couple.
Sex Peddlers
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A young bartender acts as a pimp on the side: he pretends to have VD to get a girl an abortion. She is actually infected by another and plans her revenge.
Two Lives, Two Yakuza
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An early ninkyo film from before the genre had truly established its form. Koji Tsuruta plays an honourable outlaw who saves an older man from an ambush. It turns out the man is the head of a hard working clan appointed to a railway construction project. A ruthless yakuza gang is also trying to get their share of the project and attempts to sabotage the work. After the old man dies, his son (Sonny Chiba) and daughter (Junko Fuji) try to complete the project. Tsuruta joins them while also falling in love with a local woman working in a bar (after all, Tsuruta always was more of a lover than his stoic colleague Takakura).
An Outlaw
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Assassin Nanjo goes on a solitary mission to take revenge on the man who trapped him into a complicated drug deal.
Judo Life
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Sonny Chiba in an adaption from Ryutaro Kondo work
Tokyo's  Business District
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Lakeside Figure
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A story of Minako who struggles finding love and peace in life. When Minako’s hope for ultimate happiness, marriage to her beloved fiancé, comes to a sudden halt, Minako finds herself in search of new love which in turn leads her into a complicated love triangle.
Police Precinct Part 17
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The murder took place at a hotel in Matsushima. The victim is a woman about 28 years old. The suspect is a young man who visited her the night before, and the evidence, in addition to shoe horns and handkerchiefs, is soap with the name of the tavern. When detectives at Shiogama Station followed the man's tracks, it turned out that he had come from Ueno.